Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 415fc225c67d4a79…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-03-26 13:38:48 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: fdc63f70614feea93e73b29dec6e9391 SHA-1: 910a9cb3512163ee40f1f3e9b6236798ecff7b6d SHA-256: 415fc225c67d4a793ff83ec021d88cb83e2979ad4d69f06fcb2d7ac5f8cc0bc4
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating it likely exploits a vulnerability or hosts malicious content. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URIs pointing to various domains, suggesting a potential phishing or SEO spam campaign. The presence of multiple external links, some on disposable hosting, reinforces the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://nipisod.ru/wix?keyword=two+kinds+questions+and+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/guzupewad/jaLhjgd/3717460592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jirogadipew.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606393/duzabekixidi-moxebiwomaxo-joxigilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/votezevon/ejihdyU/sepiruvenirebesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xuxurebero.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134673100/111546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lunosupi/bjahaha/52564492951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bubuzibiv/bjgie9N/wolasabubeveputof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xewimoziwuvo/5jeM6EQ/10018638571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vavaterojitenoj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134898986/nuwomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bavalezamo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134749705/dajowozipelik-xipip-zobigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mujawiru/VaWhgie/fifuzasajipanubodomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vujenibolo/KhfYPic/usa_flag_shirt_button.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b6921e92-6f64-4023-adae-88eb2dcc1248/how_do_i_change_my_braun_thermoscan_from_f_to_c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://502f924d-676a-41b3-8220-87c01882f600.filesusr.com/ugd/5a20bb_f7f7dd35cbd946e5bd198e6b435d5358.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b415eb94-4fd0-45d6-a174-da91c1e263a1/american_politics_today_6th_edition_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6bf6426e-7fea-4b9c-b165-13e7dffc4913/xipinizawipepikipisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/22760eaa-0f67-43b7-af57-121db1f73687/historia_y_evolucion_de_los_derechos_humanos_en_mexico.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://34e51215-b586-4e01-b3ea-a219475a7b91.filesusr.com/ugd/46481b_b8ebfb4be3544bf3a3a9b32488d021f0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/55cbce87-e722-4999-b292-c45a084a3cf1/handy_stitch_instructions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e9a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9A5 4900 bytes
SHA-256: a5a235c1375e074243fb6295ae0947e90c2a850c4a95d5b8b155324fe3934526
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA67 10072 bytes
SHA-256: 189dce52e569a736bebb86d4cbeedebf0200129c5f140206d5bde74b72050ac2
font_02_sfnt_off00011cd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CD0 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2